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Liblinphone

Overview

Description

Liblinphone is a high level library integrating all the SIP video calls feature into a single easy to use API. Usually telecommunications is made of two things: media (transport of voice or video, encoding and decoding...), and signaling (routing calls, ringing, accepting a call etc...).

Liblinphone aims at combining the two things together and doing most things automatically. This makes it easier to the programmer to implement video calls in any application, without being an expert in VoIP and telecommunications. Liblinphone is an open source library based on Mediastreamer2 for voice/video streaming, and belle-sip for SIP signaling.